‘Barefoot’ is simple Simon, but it’s still great fun
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — It seems the plays of the prolific Neil Simon have fallen out of the rotation of many theater companies in recent years. So much so, I have a hard time… Continue reading
Category Archive: Reviews
Lyric’s ‘Allergist’s Wife’ would make Busch proud
BOSTON — Theaters around the country are marking the three decades of playwright Charles Busch’s work as part of a partnership between the theatrical licensing company Samuel French, Inc. and Tony Award-winning producer Daryl… Continue reading
Tyson crafts unforgettable ‘Trip to Bountiful’
BOSTON — It isn’t the grand, sweeping gestures that make for great actors and actresses. It is the nuanced gesture, a word accented or an inflection, or the reaction to a word or… Continue reading
PigPen’s ‘Old Man’: Lo-tech, but highly entertaining
BOSTON — The PigPen Theatre Co. is in the best tradition of the traveling troubadours and storytellers who moved from town to town. In an era of 3-D spectacles and $300 million movies… Continue reading
‘Awake and Sing!’ finds light in a dark tunnel
BOSTON — The Huntington Theatre Company can look backward just as easily as looking forward. The theater nourishes new works and emerging local playwrights, but also looks backs regularly to revisit the classics,… Continue reading
Hub’s ‘6 Hotels’ showcases a talented quartet
BOSTON — The Hub Theatre Company is closing its second season by assembling a quartet of skilled actors who portray a variety of roles in the production of Israel Horvitz’s “6 Hotels” at… Continue reading
NSMT crafts an emotional, intimate ‘Les Misérables’
BEVERLY — The debut of the hit musical “Les Misérables” in the West End of London in 1985 and on Broadway in 1987 heralded an era of big-budgeted, mega-cast, sprawling musicals that ran… Continue reading
‘Annie’ makes a grand, glorious return to Boston
BOSTON — National touring productions are like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: You never know what you’re going to get. So it’s good news that the national touring production of “Annie” at the… Continue reading
Speakeasy’s intense ‘Bad Jews’ crackles and sizzles
BOSTON — The name alone has created a controversy of sorts. The Speakeasy Stage Company‘s production “Bad Jews” by Joshua Harmon at the Calderwood Pavilion of the Boston Center for the Arts isn’t… Continue reading
MRT’s ‘Dusk Rings a Bell’ too much of a slow go
LOWELL — In the Merrimack Repertory Theatre’s production of Stephen Belber‘s “Dusk Rings the Bell,” a moment in time between a young man and a young woman is unearthed and becomes a 25th… Continue reading